Genetic freeze frame
By James Penha
shows Edenic genesis
in Arctic subsoil
“Two-million-year-old DNA from northern Greenland has revealed that the region was once home to mastodons, lemmings and geese, offering unprecedented insights into how climate change can shape ecosystems.”
Quote from The Guardian article ‘DNA from 2m years ago reveals lost Arctic world’ from 7th December 2022.
Further reading:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05453-y
Author bio:
Expat New Yorker James Penha (he/him🌈) has lived for the past three decades in Indonesia. Nominated for Pushcart Prizes in fiction and poetry, his work is widely published in journals and anthologies. His newest chapbook of poems, American Daguerreotypes, is available for Kindle. His essays have appeared in The New York Daily News and The New York Times. Penha edits TheNewVerse.News, an online journal of current-events poetry. You can find out more about James’ poetry on his website https://jamespenha.com and catch up with him on Twitter @JamesPenha
Enjoyed James’ sciku? Check out more of his sciku here: ‘Quantumku‘, ‘If A Tree Talks in a Forest’, and ‘Air-Gen-Ku’.